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In what is already the wettest year on record in much of Pennsylvania and in recognition of National Preparedness Month, Wolf Administration officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation , Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and the state Insurance Department today discussed how the state is analyzing and preparing for extreme weather, and also offered tips and resources for Pennsylvanians. PennDOT Deputy Secretary for Planning Jim Ritzman and Deputy Secretary for Highway Administration George McAuley outlined the impacts of this year's weather, as well as ongoing and future measures to plan for increased extreme weather.
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Social media buzzed with the news Friday after chef Scott Schroeder posted a photo of the for-sale sign at 817 Christian St. Real-estate agent Kevin O'Connor, who said the property was offered at $775,000 , said the family had decided to close in January after fourth-generation butcher Dan Fiorella became sick. Fiorella did not return a phone call for elaboration.
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Where are the three most expensive residential real estate listings right now in Delaware County? Not surprisingly, in Villanova. Beyond hosting the NCAA Division I men's basketball champion, the area is known as an affluent community filled with beautiful homes.
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Cape Bancorp and Xenith Bankshares are both small-cap financials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership. Cape Bancorp has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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Maria Panaritis is a columnist who strikes across Pennsylvania and its most populated region -- the political battleground Pennsylvania suburbs. She aims for any story that cuts through the noise and gives you the real deal.
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Regional Headlines

Remember the delinquency and foreclosure issues we had several years ago? It is still part of the biz. Hubzu, an online marketing platform, released data ranking the top 20 U.S. markets by the highest percentage of REO properties bought and sold within 2017 .
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U.S. consumers filed the fewest requests for a mortgage since late 2014 last week as most home borrowing costs reached their highest levels in more than seven years, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday. A home is seen in the Penn Estates development where most of the homeowners are underwater on their mortgages in East Straudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 20, 2018.
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Scott Wagner, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, had a message for Victoria Clark when she told him that she is downsizing from her four-story home, partly because of the mortgage. "Under my plan, your school property taxes will go away," Wagner told Clark during a stop at her driveway sale while canvassing in her suburban Harrisburg neighborhood earlier this month.
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Scott Wagner wants to eliminate property taxes, but has yet to explain how he'd replace nearly $13 billion in revenue annually for municipalities across Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is 45th out of 50 states, supplying less than 38 percent of total revenue for public education, federal data has shown.
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Photo illustration: 731; Photographer: Adam Jeffery/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images ; Prensa Internacional/ZUMA Press ; Rick Maiman/Bloomberg It was the spring of 2008, and David Einhorn gave the most memorable speech of his career. At a conference in Manhattan, the hedge fund manager took to the stage at the standing-room-only concert hall and delivered a scathing attack on Lehman Brothers.
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National Headlines

This past week it was oil taking the bear baton from equities, leading the market lower and focusing investor minds. It's been hard going for the asset class - excessive supply builds in the US, weakening global growth, the granting of waivers to buyers of Iranian crude and what looked like technical selling mid-week all helped to keep pressure on crude.
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Colliers International notes that B.C. residents were among those most in favour of legalizing cannabis, but its recent survey of worker attitudes found the province's office tenants are also the most likely to favour tight restrictions on the marketing, sale and use of cannabis in office buildings. Just 26 per cent felt cannabis should be modestly or mostly unrestricted.
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Home-renting company Airbnb Inc said on Monday that it had decided to remove its listings in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, enclaves that most world powers consider illegal for taking up land where Palestinians seek statehood. In response, Israel's Tourism Minister Yariv Levin instructed the ministry to restrict the company's operations across the country.
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Whilst renting a home was pretty much the norm up until about 1970, the Thatcher government's commitment to making us a nation of homeowners started a reversal of this trend. Of course, the reasons for this are numerous and require detailed analysis to be fully understood, but one of the key factors influencing a return to renting is the cost of home ownership.
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Welcome to Money Diaries , where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennials how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period - and we're tracking every last dollar.
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